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International Debt Statistics 2019: External debt stocks at end-2017 stood at over $7 trillion

The 2019 edition of International Debt Statistics (IDS) has just been published. International Debt Statistics 2019 presents statistics and analysis on the external debt and financial flows (debt…

Evis Rucaj|
Debt, Macroeconomics and Fiscal Management

Introducing the online guide to the World Development Indicators: A new way to discover data on development

The World Development Indicators (WDI) is the World Bank’s premier compilation of international statistics on global development. Drawing from officially recognized sources and including national…

World Bank Data Team|
Agriculture and Food, Climate Change, Disaster Risk Management, Education, Fragility Conflict and Violence

Introducing two new dashboards in the Health, Nutrition and Population data portal

We’re pleased to launch new dashboards in the Health, Nutrition and Population Portal, following the portal’s revamp last year. The renewed HNP portal has two main dashboards covering Population…

Haruna Kashiwase, Yatao Lu, Emi Suzuki, Ying Chi|
Gender, Education, Health, Poverty, Water

New country classifications by income level: 2018-2019

Updated country income classifications for the World Bank’s 2019 fiscal year are available here. The World Bank assigns the world's economies into four income groups — high, upper-middle,…

World Bank Data Team|

Q2 2018 update of World Development Indicators available

The World Development Indicators database has been updated. This is a regular quarterly update to 1, 600 indicators and includes both new indicators and updates to existing indicators.  Data for…

World Bank Data Team|